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Ancient tin production: Slags from the Iron Age Carvalhelhos hillfort (NW Iberian Peninsula) [PDF]
, 2018 Provenance and production of tin in the Ancient World has since long been a major topic of discussion among archaeologists. In Western Europe, where significant tin ore (cassiterite) deposits are known, only a few remains of ancient tin production, such ...
Figueiredo, Elin +5 more
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
History, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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The development of trade to the end of the second century A.D. between the eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire and the countries lying further east [PDF]
, 1965 Not ...
Thorley, J.
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Ovid, the Fasti and the stars [PDF]
, 2007 According to Quintilian, poetry cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of the stars. As one example he cites the fact that poets frequently indicate the time of year by the rising and setting of stars and constellations, a device familiar ...
Robinson, M.
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1168. Eupatorium hyssopifolium L.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 551-561, December 2025.Summary Eupatorium hyssopifolium L. (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Eupatoriinae) is described and illustrated, and the species is provided with an expanded synonymy that includes type citations, known types, and supplementary comments. Notes are provided for the species' cultivation, propagation, likely pests and diseases, and availability.
Nicholas Hind, Joanna Langhorne
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The beast initiate: the lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]
, 2019 The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Ruck, Carl
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The Pace di Siena and its Gems
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1254-1278, November 2025.For the first time, the gems of the Pace di Siena, a rare en ronde bosse enamel preserved in Arezzo (Italy), have been analyzed using a transdisciplinary approach. The combination of gemmology and Raman spectroscopy has led to the identification of blue sapphires and pink spinels, contradicting previous historical classifications.
Stefania Martiniello +6 more
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More on the Labyrinth on the Coins of Knossos
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2013 In his ‘Natural History’ (36.84-93), Pliny the Elder lists four buildings termed ‘labyrinths’. His second labyrinth, which came directly after the Egyptian one, was built by Daedalus in Crete, not far from Knossos, and appears on Knossian coins as the ...
Mariusz Mielczarek
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1302-1314, November 2025.This paper presents a new protocol for the laboratory preparation of archaeological samples. Ceramics that have been hand‐crafted using different sediments as raw materials were collected in a Roman Villa sited in Fiumana (FC), Italy. This method aims at concentrating and analysing heavy minerals in the 15–250 μm grain size fraction, studying the ...
S. Andò +6 more
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Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 In the twenty-eighth book of the Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder claims that, if a chameleon’s left leg is roasted together with a herb bearing the same name, and everything is mixed with ointment, cut in lozenges, and stored in a wooden little box ...
Massimo Leone
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